Ferryport News 

December 2025

Parents Chats – Thank you to everyone who signed up for our parent chats in November. Staff are always here should you have any queries/questions at any time.

Christmas Post Box – This will be available for children to bring their Christmas cards, for their nursery friends into nursery, and post in our post box. This completely optional. 📮

Thursday 4^th December – Our nursery children have been invited to attend a rehearsal of this years Primary 1’s and 2’s Nativity called ‘A Bundle Of Joy’. ✨

Tuesday 9^th December – Jamie the Jester will be joining us to entertain the children and bring lots of festive laughter to the nursery! 🤹‍♂️

Wednesday 10^th December – Our term-time children will be enjoying their Christmas lunch today!
All children are welcome to wear a Christmas jumper or festive accessory if they wish. 🎄✨

Friday 19^th December – We will be having our Christmas party today from 1.30pm to which ALL our children are invited to. Parents and carers are warmly invited to join us at 2:30 PM for some festive Christmas singing. We’re also hoping for a special visitor to make the occasion even more magical! 🎅

 Friday 19^th December – Our term time children will finish for the Christmas holidays and will return on Monday 5^th January 2026. 📅

 Tuesday 23^rd December – Our 49-week children will finish for the Christmas holiday and will return on Monday 5^th January 2026. 📅

Anyone with any queries/questions please speak to a member of staff. 😊

All staff at Ferryport Nursery would like to take this opportunity to thank all parents and carers for their continued support. We wish all our families a very Merry Christmas and all the best for a prosperous and healthy 2026!

Monday: Out in the garden today, sports have been the topic, discussing different types of sports, rules and safety. Inside, lots of role play at the blocks and exploring light and dark using the light box.

Tuesday: Today some of us have been exploring light and dark again using the light box and torches with different coloured slides and paper on the torches.

Wednesday : Today we have been learning about our rights, listening to a story and playing a game of putting our rights around the room such as our right to clean water, finding were we could access drinking water and putting up a sign.

Thursday: We have been out in the garden using loose parts to play a game of tic tac toe. Some of us were helping to clean the mud kitchen as it was very messy.

Friday: Today we have celebrated  St Andrews Day. Learning about why we celebrate it through a story on the smartboard. Then we tried some Scottish dancing developing our counting skills.

Monday

Today sees the start of Book Week Scotland. Today, from the choice of 3 books, all our children had the opportunity to vote for their favourite book which was then read at story time. All children were then encouraged to share their thoughts on the story 👍👎🤔.  Climbing and jumping activities both indoors and outdoors were popular with several children today. Some children demonstrating awareness of safety by risk assessing the bricks before climbing/jumping off them. Some children also demonstrating good turn taking skills. Samoa the elephant joined some children in the brick corner to make sure they were staying safe. 🐘

Tuesday

Today some of our children enjoyed exploring the mud kitchen. Some explored the different utensils experimenting with them by tapping to hear the different sounds they made. Others created ‘lunch’ using various pots, plates etc  to mix and pour.  Monetary themed games have been popular today developing children’s monetary awareness and creating lots of discussion/language around different coins etc.

Wednesday

Today some children asked if they could have some music on to dance to. They selected a cd before operating the cd player successfully- developing our use of technology. We had a visit from Janice, from the Community Gardens, to establish a willow den in our nursery garden. The children will be able to help weave the willow to create the finished den once the willow is growing and established. Some children created a dinosaur land in the tuff tray in the garden developing their role/imaginative play whilst also developing turn taking/sharing and language skills.

Thursday

Today the majority of our children enjoyed helping to create, experiment with, and explore a ‘light box’ using torches and coloured cellophane. Some children then used the box to represent, and share their ideas through role/imaginative play.  Having read/explored the storybook Dig Dig Dinosaurs some children joined in a dinsaur hunt/dig in our nursery garden. We found some dinosaur eggs which we then had to think about/ experiment with on how to reveal the dinosaur fossils/skeletons inside.

Friday

Today we were enjoying exploring different technologies and how they work/ how they can help us. Continuing with our focus on Book Week Scotland we had a visit from some Primary 7, children from Tayport Primary, to read us The Gruffalo and The Gruffalos Child story. We had a discussion as to which on e we liked/disliked and gave our reasons why!

Monday

This morning we had a story about Remembrance Day . Learning about the Poppy and the meaning of the Poppy.

We introduced our Antibullying fortnight with our odd socks day. We talked about our differences and had a focus on  being kind. We have introduced our kindness tree which will fill up with ‘kindness’ leaves which is recognising and celebrating child’s  acts of kindness.

TUESDAY

This morning all of the children visited the local war memorial to lay some remembrance crosses in the garden of remembrance.

Wednesday

Today there has been an interest in table top activities using blocks to create patterns and “towers.” Some have been using small world wild animals using natural resources of logs to explore playing at different heights.

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Thursday

This morning for anti bullying week we discussed being respectful towards others. This word was used throughout the day to explain to children how they have shown ‘respect’ to one another through sharing or kind words allowing them to understand the meaning.
This afternoon we have have been exploring light and dark finding and using dark spaces with torches. Whilst using descriptive language to describe brightness and relating to darkness to moon and the stars.

Friday

In Service day

PEEP – Thank you to those who have signed up to our current block of PEEP sessions. We hope you are enjoying them. There are still a few spaces in our Thursday morning sessions if anyone would like to join us. Please speak to a member of staff.

Book Bug – Our Book Bug sessions are continuing on Friday mornings and everyone is welcome to join us for stories, songs and rhymes. Please speak to a member of staff for further information.

Antibullying Fortnight – Week Beginning 10th November sees that start of our focus on antibullying. More details to follow.

Remembrance Day – Tuesday 11th November. As part of our learning around Remembrance Day, we will be talking with the children about why we observe this important occasion. If staffing allows, we hope to take a group of children to the local war memorial to attend the Remembrance Day service. We would greatly appreciate any parent volunteers who are available to help walk the children to and from the memorial. Your support would help make this a meaningful and safe experience for the children. If you’re able to assist, please let a member of staff know. Thank you!

In – Service Day– Friday 14th November. Nursery will be closed to all children on this day.

Children In Need – Thursday 13th November. As Friday 14th November is an in-service day, we will be marking Children in Need on Thursday 13th November instead. There will be a donation bucket available in the front hall for anyone who wishes to contribute. Donations are entirely optional. Children are also welcome to wear something spotty to help celebrate the day -again, this is completely optional.

Annual Toy Drive – Various locations across North East Fife are participating in this year’s event, including Tayport Primary School, which will run between 1st November – 30th November. Donations will be collected and distributed to children and families in need. We will be collecting for boys and girls aged between 0-18. Gifts must be new and unwrapped.

Nursery Times: – Just a wee reminder of our nursery session times:

AM Sessions: 8.00am – 12.40pm
Term Time Sessions: 9.00am – 3.00pm
We understand that families may need some flexibility, so drop-off and pick-up can take place any time after 8.00am and before 12.40pm, or after 9.00am and before 3.00pm, depending on your child’s session.

Sickness/Illness – Just a gentle reminder: if your child is unwell—particularly with vomiting or diarrhoea—the current guidelines are a 48-hour exclusion from nursery following the last bout of illness. This helps prevent the spread of infection and ensures all children can enjoy a safe and healthy environment. Also, when children are feeling poorly, they often find it difficult to cope with the busy nursery day. Keeping them at home to rest can really help with a quicker recovery.

Winter Weather – Could all parents please ensure their child is appropriately dressed for the weather and that all clothing is clearly named. Thank you.

Please visit our nursery website to access further information and our weekly blog.

The Nursery Team

Monday

Today there was lots of discussion, designing and building in the brick corner. “It’s a stage!” “We’re going to dance!” “I’m going to sing!” “I like jumping off!”. Children sharing and represent their ideas in different ways. 💃🏻🎤We had a lovely visit from Louise, from Childsmile Smile, who brought her friend Twinkle the unicorn to show us how to clean our teeth properly. We then all had the chance to clean Twinkles teeth. 🦷🪥.

Tuesday

Some children were engaging in role play in the water tray using a variety of  animals including frogs, star fish and crabs. Developing use of language to describe the different animals demonstrating their awareness/knowledge of different creatures and how they live. In preparation for our upcoming fire drill we listened to a social story on what to do in a fire drill. This created a lot of questions whilst developing our understanding of how to keep ourselves safe in the event of a fire.

Wednesday

Today the majority of our children chose to come for snack. Independently following hand washing and snack routines. We are enjoying being able to choose what we want for snack including a variety of healthy snacks. Some children were experimenting with a variety of large and small construction resources to build towers creating lots of discussion using mathematical language whilst developing our estimation, sharing, designing and building skills.

Thursday

Today some of children retold the story of The Three Little Pigs using  a variety of props e.g. the reading pod as the little pigs house, the pictures in the book to retell the story and the spoon puppets as the characters. The children also took on the roles of the different characters in the story choosing, and exploring how they can use their voices, movement and expression through role play and drama.  Whilst being creative with the playdough some our children explored a variety of counting, matching opportunities developing there maths and numeracy skills.

Friday

Today some of our children joined Mrs Wright and Miss Higgins for Book Bug at the school. We had stories (A Squash and a Squeeze) and songs before heading back to nursery for snack and fun.

Back in nursery we had some songs too, Humpty Dumpty, Wheels on the Bus and Wind the Bobbin up – hot favourites at the moment!

Later we were playing in the water tray. Lots of role play with the marine animals, which carried on to the table top games area and our safari animals. Building habitats and creating stories.

“Oh no! My giraffe has only one leg!”

“And you’ve lost your baby giraffe!”

” My fish doesn’t like to swim much!”

Another busy week finished at Ferryport Nursery!

N.B  Friday 14th November nursery is closed to children for in service training.

See you all next week,

The Nursery Team

Monday

All of the children have returned to nursery after our October holiday.  The learning wall is still of particular interest with the children, we have added some new resources  to prompt curiosity & prompt  conversations about food. There has been lots of role play in our house corner with the babies being fed some interesting combinations of food.

Tuesday

Today we have been exploring forces by using magnetics 🧲 some creative structures were created.  SIMO is very much embedded within the children & some of the have been revisiting our nursery charter. We have new resources at the play dough table helping them to keep developing their fine motor skills through play.

Wednesday

The children have been very creative using the Lego to build, some children role played firemen which they then extended out into the garden as the play became more energetic. The small building blocks were being used to develop patters & building towers. Sound has been explored using a variety of instruments whilst others chose to use scarfs to dance to the music being created

Thursday

Some of the children were dancing to music that was on the smart board, they decided to build a stage with blocks to showcase to their peers. The play changed to building the blocks higher to allow them to jump from. All of the children supported & encouraged each other when jumping. Great teamwork building, then tidying them away.

Friday

We have been celebrating Halloween in nursery today singing lots of songs & listening to spooky stories. We used the Lycra to stretch & bounce our colour monsters. We used the pumpkins to explore senses where the children had the opportunity to dig through the pumpkin. Some of the children didn’t like the smell or feel of it.

This week it has been quiet in the nursery but that has not stopped us having fun and forming positive relationships by showing more understanding about sharing and taking turns in our play.  We made playdough which involved us measuring out amounts , mixing things together and making sausages for each other which turned out great , we are learning about different food groups within the nursery! Some helped put together a short movie of the process of the cress seeds growing which helped develop our digital technology skills , we even tried some , it was delicious!

All children were taking turns using the musical instruments to create their own music and some played twinkle twinkle on the xylophone.

Some of us were exploring the painting table , experimenting by mixing up a variety of liquid paints to create new colours.

‘I am going to paint a rainbow’

‘I need purple for my rainbow’

They represented their ideas using art and design by describing their pictures and learning to take turns.

Outdoors some children explored their imagination and creativity with some adult support they created a ‘dinosaur home’ with a variety of materials such as leaves , stones , twigs and a big wooden log. They were able to test out their own strengths and describe weight.

‘To heavy’

‘Would you like some help’?

Another child took the opportunity to help , great team work as they recognised their achievement’s through communication.

We took SIMOA on a walk to the beach  to explore the area and understand our safety rules.

• Monday 

This morning our interest in food has continued. In the garden children made an ice cream shop. Taking turns to be the shop keeper and the customer, using stones to represent money. developing literacy skills through mark making to make menus and shopping lists.

Tuesday

This morning we planted some Cress seeds as part of our “ food ” learning wall topic. We used individual egg box ups and kitchen roll then using our fine motor skills placed the seeds in. We then watered them.

Lots of experimenting with the pipes and balls. Moving the plastic basin back and forward to catch the balls.

wednesday

This morning we checked our seed, some the paper was dry so we gave the seeds more water.

Thursday

We painted a picture of the shore to put in our front hall as part of our lighthouse display.

Friday

This morning lots of children are showing they are understanding and following our nursery hygiene routine. Washing there hands before snack and brushing their teeth when they have finished. Good recognition of their own toothbrush by using their own pictures as a guide.

In the sand a group of children continued to show interest in food which is our learning wall interest. Making a birthday cake in the sand. We looked up a recipe in a book, developing out literacy skills and used our imaginations to decorate our cakes 🎂 using natural loose parts, shells and pine cones.

Stay & Play Sessions – We will be offering three dates (9^th, 10^th and 27^th October 2025), for parents to choose one, to come and spend a short time in nursery with their child. If need be Siblings are welcome to attend along with their parents but will be the sole responsibility of their parents. Please see message on See Saw, dated 3^rd October 2025, for more information.

PEEP – We will shortly be commencing another block of PEEP sessions. Please look out for your invite which will be coming home with your child soon. This will contain more information about PEEP.

Book Bug – Our Book Bug sessions will also be restarting soon, again look out for more information regarding dates and times coming soon.

Tempest Photos – The Tempest photographer will be joining us on Monday 27^th October to take individual photos of our children. Every child will have their photograph taken but you are under no obligation to purchase the photos. However, this maybe a nice idea for Christmas Presents!!

Our current Learning Wall is all about ‘Food’. It is located next to our writing table. Please take time to share this with your child and feel free to add to the learning wall with your child. Staff will be more than happy to help with this if needed.

Sickness/Illness – A gentle reminder that if your child is unwell (e.g. Vomiting & Diarrhoea) the guidelines are 48 hours exclusion from nursery from the last bout of sickness/diarrhoea.

Winter Weather – Could all parents please ensure their child is appropriately dressed for the weather and that all clothing is clearly named. Thank you.

Please visit our nursery website to access further information and our weekly blog.

The Nursery Team